Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon

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Welcome to WikiProject Pokémon, formerly known as the Pokémon Collaborative Project. Wikipedians have formed this project to improve

.

If you'd like to bring an article to this project's attention, mention it on the talk page as appropriate.

The oldest ancestor of this project was

.

This criticism led to the creation of the

support, it stalled when it was proposed that it must be possible to expand these Pokémon stubs.

This effort to expand these stubs into articles led to the creation of the Pokémon Adoption Center, a project that assigned stubs to individual users to expand.

When the PAC project ran out of stubs to assign, this project was founded (under the name "Pokémon Collaborative Project"), to maintain and improve the newly expanded articles.

Eventually, the interest for individual articles for every Pokémon died down, and Pokémon that were not considered to be

).

As the amount of Pokémon-related articles diminished, WikiProject Pokémon slowly became more inactive, and the modern lists ended up consisting of sometimes just a singular Pokédex entry. Articles on individual Pokémon, even if they were technically notable, ended up being

appropriate, reliable sources

and more information.

Scope

Any article related to any of the

.

• Improve the general standards of Pokémon articles, aiming for
  Good Article
  status in all of them.
• Get the list articles to featured list status.
• More work can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon/index

Article status

Good articles

Taken from User:Captain Galaxy/PokémonSpeciesGT.

Redirects for discussion

• 15 Apr 2024 – Golem (Pokémon character) (talk · edit · hist) →List of generation I Pokémon#Golem RfDed by Cogsan (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 15 Apr 2024 – Golem (Pokemon character) (talk · edit · hist) →List of generation I Pokémon#Golem RfDed by Cogsan (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 15 Apr 2024 – Aron (Pokémon character) (talk · edit · hist) →List of generation III Pokémon#Aron RfDed by Cogsan (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 15 Apr 2024 – Aron (Pokemon character) (talk · edit · hist) →List of generation III Pokémon#Aron RfDed by Cogsan (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Good article nominees

• 16 Apr 2024 – Psyduck (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Pokelego999 (t · c); start discussion
• 16 Apr 2024 – Squirtle (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Pokelego999 (t · c); see discussion
• 16 Apr 2024 – Bulbasaur (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Pokelego999 (t · c); see discussion
• 16 Apr 2024 – Larry (Pokémon) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Pokelego999 (t · c); start discussion
• 15 Apr 2024 – Jynx (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Pokelego999 (t · c); start discussion
• 21 Mar 2024 – Pokémon Theme (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Yoshiman6464 (t · c); start discussion
• 15 Apr 2024 – Sprigatito, Floragato, and Meowscarada (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by Pokelego999 (t · c) was promoted by TrademarkedTWOrantula (t · c), see discussion
• 13 Apr 2024 – Pokémon and pornography (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by Skyshifter (t · c) was not promoted by Kung Fu Man (t · c), see discussion

Featured article reviews

• 12 Feb 2024 – Pokémon Channel (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Vrxces (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

• 19 Apr 2024 – Sobble (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by TrademarkedTWOrantula (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 04 Apr 2024 – Snorlax (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to List of generation I Pokémon by Pokelego999 (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Apr 2024 – Greninja (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to List of generation VI Pokémon by Pokelego999 (t · c); see discussion

Here is a list of current participants of this project. If you wish to join, please add your username to the Active list in alphabetical order, using {{

). If you were previously a part of this WikiProject and your name is on the Inactive list, please remove it when you have added your name to the Active list.

Active

Inactive

Userbox

Members may add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon/Userbox}} to any page in their userspace to transclude a userbox signifying their membership. Alternate colors are also available; see the documentation page for details.

Templates and categories

• Talk pages: {{WikiProject Pokémon}} - For generic Pokémon-related article talk pages.

• Articles: {{Nintendo-stub}} - For tagging stub Pokémon articles.

• Infoboxes: Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon/Pokémon species - Infobox for articles about a certain Pokémon. Depreciated template, preserved for historical reasons.

• Images
  • Category:Pokémon game covers - For cover art of video game boxes.
  • Category:Television-screenshots of Pokémon - For screenshots taken from the anime.
  • Category:Pokémon Trading Card Game images - For scanned images of cards from the trading card game.
  • Category:Pokémon lead images - For lead Pokémon images for Pokémon species articles

• Templates
  • {{Pokedex}} - Used for citing the Pokédex
  • {{Pokémon}} - A navigational point for the franchise

• User talk
  • {{Hcp2}} - For inviting new editors to join the Project.
  • {{Hcp}} - For welcoming editors who've just joined the Project.

• Barnstar
  • {{Barnstar Pokémon}}

		The Pokémon Barnstar
		I award this barnstar to Professor Oak